Eric E. Nelson

14.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
136 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Eric E. Nelson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric E. Nelson has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 59 papers in Clinical Psychology and 52 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Eric E. Nelson's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (46 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (43 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (34 papers). Eric E. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (46 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (43 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (34 papers). Eric E. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Eric E. Nelson's co-authors include Daniel S. Pine, Ellen Leibenluft, Monique Ernst, Amanda E. Guyer, Erin B. McClure, Jaak Panksepp, Christopher S. Monk, James Blair, Johanna M. Jarcho and Daniel S. Pine and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Eric E. Nelson

133 papers receiving 10.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The social re-orientation of adolescence: a neuroscience perspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology

2005 781 citations Eric E. Nelson, Ellen Leibenluft et al. profile →
Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view

2015 290 citations Eric E. Nelson, Johanna M. Jarcho et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric E. Nelson United States	50	4.7k	4.7k	4.3k	3.1k	1.6k	136	11.1k
Daniel S. Pine United States	58	5.0k 1.1×	6.1k 1.3×	6.9k 1.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	151	12.4k
Erika E. Forbes United States	59	3.8k 0.8×	4.7k 1.0×	4.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	218	10.3k
Rudolf Stark Germany	58	5.5k 1.2×	3.0k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	245	10.4k
Greg J. Siegle United States	65	6.3k 1.3×	4.0k 0.9×	6.3k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	232	12.8k
Adam J. Guastella Australia	54	3.9k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	5.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.3×	208	12.3k
B. J. Casey United States	43	7.0k 1.5×	4.3k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	80	14.1k
Leah H. Somerville United States	43	4.5k 1.0×	2.8k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	842 0.5×	91	9.4k
Adriana Galván United States	43	4.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	115	9.2k
Susan Mineka United States	59	5.9k 1.3×	6.2k 1.3×	7.3k 1.7×	4.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	188	16.6k
Christopher S. Monk United States	50	5.4k 1.2×	3.8k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	132	9.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Plas, Ellen van der, Eric E. Nelson, Brian Becknell, et al.. (2025). Age-Related Changes in Brain Structure in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA Network Open. 8(2). e2457601–e2457601. 2 indexed citations

Fu, Xiaoxue, et al.. (2024). Young Children of Mothers with a History of Depression Show Attention Bias to Sad Faces: An Eye-tracking Study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 52(9). 1469–1483.

Strang, John F., Sufang Li, Allison Jack, et al.. (2023). The autism spectrum among transgender youth: default mode functional connectivity. Cerebral Cortex. 33(11). 6633–6647. 12 indexed citations

Chelvakumar, Gayathri, Justin A. Indyk, Scott Leibowitz, et al.. (2023). Associations Among Gender-Affirming Hormonal Interventions, Social Support, and Transgender Adolescents' Mental Health. Journal of Adolescent Health. 72(6). 860–868. 26 indexed citations

Fu, Xiaoxue, et al.. (2022). Development of the mentalizing network structures and theory of mind in extremely preterm youth. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(11). 977–985. 4 indexed citations

Krishnamurthy, Ramkumar, et al.. (2019). Recent Advances in Pediatric Brain, Spine, and Neuromuscular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques. Pediatric Neurology. 96. 7–23. 8 indexed citations

Smith, Ashley R., et al.. (2018). I Like Them…Will They Like Me? Evidence for the Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Mismatched Social Appraisals in Anxious Youth. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 28(9). 646–654. 9 indexed citations

Morningstar, Michele, Eric E. Nelson, & Melanie A. Dirks. (2018). Maturation of vocal emotion recognition: Insights from the developmental and neuroimaging literature. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 90. 221–230. 39 indexed citations

Nelson, Eric E., et al.. (2012). Tracking eye movements while encoding faces. Perception. 41. 161–161. 1 indexed citations

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Nelson, Eric E. & Amanda E. Guyer. (2011). The development of the ventral prefrontal cortex and social flexibility. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(3). 233–245. 144 indexed citations

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Vasa, Roma A., Daniel S. Pine, Simona Spinelli, et al.. (2010). Enhanced right amygdala activity in adolescents during encoding of positively valenced pictures. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(1). 88–99. 30 indexed citations

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Lau, Jennifer Y. F., David Goldman, Beáta Búzás, et al.. (2008). Amygdala Function and 5-HTT Gene Variants in Adolescent Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 65(4). 349–355. 89 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Edgar, Koraly, Roxann Roberson‐Nay, Michael Hardin, et al.. (2007). Attention alters neural responses to evocative faces in behaviorally inhibited adolescents. NeuroImage. 35(4). 1538–1546. 153 indexed citations

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McClure, Erin B., Abby Adler, Christopher S. Monk, et al.. (2006). fMRI predictors of treatment outcome in pediatric anxiety disorders. Psychopharmacology. 191(1). 97–105. 120 indexed citations

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Roberson‐Nay, Roxann, Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, et al.. (2006). Increased Amygdala Activity During Successful Memory Encoding in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder: An fMRI Study. Biological Psychiatry. 60(9). 966–973. 109 indexed citations

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Nelson, Eric E. & Jaak Panksepp. (1998). Brain Substrates of Infant–Mother Attachment: Contributions of Opioids, Oxytocin, and Norepinephrine. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 22(3). 437–452. 485 indexed citations

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Nelson, Eric E., et al.. (1994). Eagle Harbor Superfund Project. 1122–1131. 4 indexed citations

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Panksepp, Jaak, et al.. (1994). Brain opioids and mother—infant social motivation. Acta Paediatrica. 83(s397). 40–46. 110 indexed citations

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Nelson, Eric E., et al.. (1986). Floating Breakwater Prototype Test Program : Seattle, Washington. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 4 indexed citations

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Nelson, Eric E., et al.. (1983). Floating Breakwater Prototype Test Program. 433–446. 6 indexed citations

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